CUPRESSUS arizonica 'FASTIGIATA'

Smooth Arizona cypress 'Fastigiata', Blue Arizona cypress 'Fastigiata'

CUPRESSUS arizonica 'FASTIGIATA'

Smooth Arizona cypress 'Fastigiata', Blue Arizona cypress 'Fastigiata'

  • Maintenance advice : Formative pruning if necessary, to reduce the length of its younger shoots.
  • Botanical/Horticultural origin : Horticultural origin : bred before 1928
  • Use group : Conifers
  • Height at 10 years : 10 m
  • Width at 10 years : 4 m
  • Growth : Fast
  • Fragrance : No
  • Exposure : Full sun
  • Evergreen/Deciduous : Evergreen
  • Shape : conical, pyramidal
  • Colour of leaves : Silver grey
  • Colour of flowers : Absent
  • Soil type : Dry soil
  • Uses : Free standing specimen
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Forms a compact cone with erect branches. Browny-red bark, fibrous in young subjects, becoming grey and flaky with age. Grey green foliage, tinted with blue having a strong scent. Round cones of 1.8 to 2cm in diameter. In a chalky soil, choose plants grafted from Cupressus sempervirens. Plant in isolation, in groups, tall hedges for screening or as a windbreak. Can grow to over 6m.